‘Trump’ is children’s word of the year

Oxford University Press onThursday named "Trump" the children’s word of the year, based on analysis of children’s stories entered into a writing competition.

The publishing house went through more than 130,000 500-word stories submitted by children aged five to 13 to an annual BBC Radio 2 writing competition and found the U.S. president’s name came up more than any other word, beating "fake news" and "Brexit."

It picked the word because of its significant increase in use — 839 percent — and the variety of usage. Donald Trump featured as a protagonist in some stories, while other children used his name to create a different character.

The word trump appeared a total of 2,296 times in the 2017 stories, as a noun (a trump), a proper noun (Trump the name) and as a verb (trumped, trumping), according to the publisher.